YOUTH PROGRAM
青少年课程
WHY?
Promote Physical Development
Tai Chi practice for teenagers primarily focuses on stretching and strengthening bones. On one hand, it helps promote bone density, muscle strength, and ligament flexibility, thereby establishing a solid physical foundation. On the other hand, it enhances overall physical fitness, boosts immunity, reduces the likelihood of illness, and minimizes the negative impact on physical development, thereby promoting healthy growth.
Establish Health Foundation
Tai Chi follows natural laws, emphasizing harmony with nature. It helps loosen joints, enhance organ function, and improve the circulatory system's metabolism. Moreover, it lays a foundation for teenagers' athletic abilities, enhances flexibility and responsiveness, improves learning capabilities, and ensures robust physical and mental health.
DIVERSITY
Cultural Immersion
Diversified Background
BODY
Strong Bones & Muscles
Boosted Immunity
MIND
Relieve Stress
Positive & Calm
CHARACTER
Upright & Confident
Perseverance
FOCUS
Concentrated
Better Self-Control
Alleviate Mental Stress
Learning Tai Chi requires relaxation, including physical, respiratory, and mental relaxation. Given the academic stress faced by teenagers, practicing Tai Chi can help relieve stress, cultivate a positive mindset, and enhance learning efficiency.
Build Confidence
Tai Chi cultivates both literary and martial virtues, aiming to refine character and nurture morality. Through Tai Chi practice, teenagers can develop a balanced and upright character, achieve excellence in both academic and martial pursuits, and build confidence, fostering a calm and composed demeanor and the ability to handle situations with ease.
Enhances Concentration
Tai Chi training starts with standing meditation, emphasizing stillness and inner focus. It encourages individuals to discard distractions and maintain mental composure, enhancing concentration. Through push hands exercises, practitioners learn to respond to opponents' movements with calmness and agility, thus improving attention, perception, and self-control, leading to increased wisdom through concentration.
Recommended Classes
24-FORM TAI CHI
二十四式杨氏太极拳
· Yang Style
· Beginner Friendly
· Slow, Continuous, Soft
Yang style is the most popular and widely practiced style of tai chi in the world today. It is characterized by slow, continuous, soft, and circular movements in a flowing form.
The creators truncated the traditional family style tai chi forms to 24 postures; taking about six minutes to perform and to give the beginner an introduction to the essential elements of tai chi, yet retain the traditional flavor of traditional longer hand forms.
18-FORM TAI CHI
十八式陈氏太极拳
· Chen Style
· Beginner & Intermediate
· Slow & Fast, Bursts of Power
Chen-style tai chi is a Northern Chinese martial art and the oldest tai chi form that originated around 1670 and is characterized by silk reeling, alternating fast and slow motions, and bursts of power.
It's based on Qigong and martial art techniques from thousands of years ago, and features contrasting and complimentary movements, such as slow and soft versus fast and hard. Chen-style tai chi also contains explosive power and low stances.
TAI CHI WEAPON 太极器械
· Yang, Chen, Wudang
· Intermediate & Advanced
· Tai Chi Fan, Sword, Broadsword
Tai chi weapons forms are an incredibly beautiful, fun, and are a way to practice some of the core principles of tai chi. Each tai chi weapon teaches a different way to balance, generate force, move, and hold your posture, all of which translate back into improving your open-hand form.
They are usually introduced after progress has been made in the open-hand form. While you do not have to know an open-hand form to begin a weapon form, knowledge from the open-hand form speaks directly to the movements of all the weapons.